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| | Hall County History-1890 |
 | | The elections of 1873 resulted in the choice of John Wallichs for mayor; W. Platt, police judge; J. Adams, marshal; Jay E. White, clerk; H. Chapman, L. Engel, H. Handy and J. Cornelius, councilman, and J. Cornelius was elected school director, vice F. Wiebe resigned. |
 | | He was born in Quebec, Canada, in 1842; in 1857 moved to Ilinois with his parents, enlisting in 1861 in the Union service. |
 | | The dimensions of the principle factory building, the concrete foundations of which were completed by January 19, 1890, and upon the brick walls of which all the masons that can be had in the city were at work, are as follows: Length, 292 feet; width, eighty-five feet; height, four stories, fifty feet. |
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